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Black Immigrant Literacies: A Prism of Promise
On Tuesday, February 13, 2024 Teachers College Press hosted the webinar “Black Immigrant Literacies: A Prism of Promise,” a conversation featuring esteemed scholars, Drs. Allison Skerrett, Aria Razfar, Shondel Nero, and Vaughn V. M. Watson, and moderated by two exceptional minds, Drs. Eurydice Bauer and Gwendolyn McMillon. A video of the webinar is now available.
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“How Caribbean ‘Black Cake’ can help the region transcend its traumatic past”
As you rest and rejuvenate this season, be sure to try out the Caribbean Black Cake Christmas delicacy and to read my thoughts on ‘Black Cake,’ the Oprah Winfrey produced series just published by Global Voices here: “How Caribbean ‘Black Cake’ can help the region transcend its traumatic past.”
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My New Book is Finally Here!
Greetings Friends, Colleagues, Well-Wishers, Advocates! My new book “Black Immigrant Literacies: Intersections of Race, Language, and Culture in the Classroom” is now available!
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You’re Invited to my Book Launch!
From the co-author of “Affirming Black Students’ Lives and Literacies: Bearing Witness,” join us to celebrate the launch of the book, “Black Immigrant Literacies: Intersections of Race, Language, and Culture in the Classroom”! Event Details• December 7, 2023• TECO Hall, USF College of Education, Tampa Campus• 5:00 p.m. Reception in the College of Education Rotunda;
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“Island of Hope, Island of Tears”: Racializing Ellis Island for Such a Time as This
Alas, the quantum ancestral possibilities, imbued yet lying dormant for generations, now beckon, functioning as a remote reminder that our redemptive restitution rests only in our power to harness the shared humanity that binds us — Native peoples to immigrants; immigrant racialized as Black to immigrant racialized as white; descendant of the enslaved to (descendant…
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“Sans “White Gaze”: From the Transgressive Multilingual Radiance of a Franco-Malian Pop Star to the Transnational Englishes of Innocent Caribbean Youth”
Thanks to Cambridge University Press & Assessment, my blog post “Sans “White Gaze”: From the Transgressive Multilingual Radiance of a Franco-Malian Pop Star to the Transnational Englishes of Innocent Caribbean Youth” is now available in Fifteen Eighty Four.
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Because a Redemptive Justice for Black Immigrants Means Nothing if not a Just Liberation for All
And though just one mother, one scholar, one small-island human, one Black transnational #SaintLucian called into this journey of becoming #American, yet forever an #immigrant with insufficient history of the facts to know all there is about the Israeli-Palestinian war or all wars — what my spirit tells me is morally right, inherently humane, and…
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Panelist: White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Black Americans
On June 12 & 13, 2024, the White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Black Americans and Discovery Education, convened the Power Up summit in Chicago, IL under the leadership of Malcolm Kenyatta (Chair, Presidential Advisory Commission) & Monique S. Toussaint (MA, GCDF), Senior Advisor, White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic…
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Transnationalism and Exoticism: Juxtaposing Caribbean and American Literacies
The Journal of Language and Literacy Education (JoLLE), under the editorship of Cris Barabas and Zihan Lin, recently published its 20th volume, “Multiliteracies as Pedagogy: Connecting, Advocating, Resisting.” In this volume, Dr. Patriann Smith was honored to share the brief article, “Transnational Raciosemiolingual Normalization and the Schizophrenic Exoticism of Literacies” as part of the section,
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And my USF Official Book Launch is now Complete!
From the co-author of “Affirming Black Students’ Lives and Literacies: Bearing Witness,” we are so grateful for you joining us to celebrate the official launch of the book, “Black Immigrant Literacies: Intersections of Race, Language, and Culture in the Classroom”! View snippets from the beautiful moments here!
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Beyond Dichotomies in the Quest for Raciosemiotic Architecture!
To accompany my Book Launch of “Black Immigrant Literacies: Intersections of Race, Language, and Culture in the Classroom,” Teachers College Press has just published the blog post, “Beyond Dichotomies in the Quest for Raciosemiotic Architecture: Black Immigrants in the United States.”
Patriann Smith, Ph.D.
Associate Dean & Professor, Dr. Patriann Smith, hails from the beautiful island country of Saint Lucia and is an award-winning American literacy researcher and educator who creates innovative solutions geared towards justice for all.
Patriann Smith, Ph.D. 